What does the Millennium Falcon and model cars have in common?

[gwolf]

When George Lucas made the original Star Wars movie, he hired model makers to build the space ships he wanted in his film the old fashioned way. They in turn, built them by scavenging parts from everything from scrap metal to ship, plane and auto model kit kits.

A guy has been building a 1:18 scale, 3 3/4" action figure sized version of Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon and found something interesting...

So what does the Millennium Falcon and model cars have in common?

An AMT '57 Chevy undercarriage! Check it out:

A photo of one of the actual Millennium Falcon models used in the film.

His 1:18 version of the Millennium Falcon...

Another shot of the inner mandible of the Millennium Falcon on display at a Star Wars exhibit.

Pretty cool, huh?

Take a look at the work this guy has done:

http://toyroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/when-11-equals-118/

[mnwildpunk]

In german accent veeeery interesting

[Custom Hearse]

I thought maybe it was because the Falcon could do the Kessel run in 12 Parsecs... Just like John Force.

[Danny Lectro]

Have you seen the teaser JJ Arms released for Star Wars VII, which was a tracking shot of the exterior of the Millennium Falcon, eventually coming to a rest on a model of the Tumbler Batmobile fixed to a recess on the underside?

[randx0]

I knew the millennium falcon was the coolest space ship ever.

[Dave Van]

I build both?????

[Maindrian Pace]

I knew it sounded like it was powered by a 283 with a stuck lifter.

[blunc]

the original Battlestar Galactica had a corvette fan shroud on the nose of the ship.

most space ship props/models are constructed using parts of other model kits... tank kits are very popular for that purpose.

in fact I think I spy bottom ferrari or porshe engine parts on the nose of the Falcon and some semi truck frame rails on some edges.

[David G.]

That gives one a pretty good idea of the size of the ship model.

David G.

[Chuck Most]

When George Lucas made the original Star Wars movie, he hired model makers to build the space ships he wanted in his film the old fashioned way. They in turn, built them by scavenging parts from everything from scrap metal to ship, plane and auto model kit kits.

A guy has been building a 1:18 scale, 3 3/4" action figure sized version of Han Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon and found something interesting...

So what does the Millennium Falcon and model cars have in common?

An AMT '57 Chevy undercarriage! Check it out:

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A photo of one of the actual Millennium Falcon models used in the film.

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His 1:18 version of the Millennium Falcon...

And just above it.... appears to be a frame rail from a big rig kit.

[Daddyfink]

In the Star Wars behind the scenes documentary that came in the Blue Ray set, they talk about building the models and how they would keep running back to the hobby shops to get more models for parts.

The concept X WIng Fighter was build using mainly Revell 1/16 Scale Dragster parts. Pretty cool stuff.

[Jantrix]

The Falcon was the inspiration for this whole build. In hindsight I should have built a Ford Falcon, but oh well.